This is abhorrent, yet I’m intrigued.

Among other things: the global perception of the US sunk to unprecedented lows, below even China. The US’s most steadfast allies have all rejected requests for support. This is a different world now and it’s uncertain whether the US can regain its prior standing.

Yeah, that’s a 100% valid point, and thanks for taking the time to build it on top of my mostly-a-shitpost quip. :) But yes. I do agree. Let’s say that Star Trek is the destination, and Andor the necessary starting point on the long journey. For those of us who won’t live to see the destination, it’s good to be reminded what it looks like.

Unless Andor. Andor is the Star Trek of Star Wars.

To not comply while superficially pretending to, I suspect, from studying that PR. See my other comment above, where I run my mouth a little longer about this.

I studied at the PR in question and that’s not the conclusion I arrive at. Let me try to explain how this looks to me.

Also keep in mind, I do think we absolutely need to keep the political pressure on and push back on identity-gating policies with all our collective might. In that light the PR itself does the two things I’d absolutely require here: one, it allows the user to put whatever value they want in that field, including none at all, and two, it disallows all apps from reading that field without the user’s active permission.

Basically it’s a superficially valid implementation of a bullshit requirement that still leaves all the power in the user’s hands and therefore renders the requirement meaningless. Or in other words, a huge middle finger to the proponents of age-checking.

Mind you, I feel there’s also value in loud non-compliance and I’m glad some are taking that road – keep it up, folks. But I’m leery of demands that only one single approach be taken. This needs to be fought on every front we can. And to me the PR in question reads like an effective defensive move.

Thanks for the correction, I was indeed wrong about that. I updated my comment accordingly.

Thanks for the correction! I updated my comment to mention it.

I mean, the poll was like as not a publicity stunt, to draw attention to the fact DDG is not doing AI. All the same, the fact they are making “no AI” a selling point is noteworthy.

EDIT: I stand corrected – apparently DDG does do AI presently. Hopefully they’re serious about reconsidering that, then.

The GPLv4 idea is interesting and I would like to see it happen. However, I’m not sure how it would apply in practice. What’s to keep that kind of company from rejecting the license and still train proprietary models on your code under fair use claims like they’re already doing?

I know. Mine is the hardcover with the two ink colors, bound in leather with two snakes biting each other’s tails embossed on the cover.

But that is another story, and shall be told another time.

Golden-eyed Commander of Wishes

Oh, I see someone knows their classics.

Sorry, no, hard disagree.

It does blatantly show that a large chunk of their stated reasons for opposing HRT (“there are no studies, we don’t know if it’s safe”, etc) are – generously – bad-faith, indefensible trash.

There’s no finding common ground with bad-faith arguments because there’s definitionally no debate there, just bigotry that you can cave to, or not. Let’s not.

Sandy is cool though. We stan Sandy.

From a quick bit of research (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/08/grub2-bls/), it seems like Grub BLS (Boot Loader Specification) is a revision of Grub EFI that supports automatically creating boot menu entries for kernels that have such a BLS entry in the EFI partition. Those BLS entries are neat because they should work independently from your bootloader – you could switch to systemd-boot and not have to reconfigure anything. I don’t know about Tumbleweed, but in other distros, those entries are created automatically when you install or update a kernel.

I see no reason not to use it.

Fair point. XD

There are a fair few countries with amazing food, yeah. Italy, to start with, without even leaving Europe, and yeah, I’m a huge fan of India and much of China in that respect too, particularly Sichuan cuisine.

This thread was however about France specifically, and your comment reads like a fairly gauche non-sequitur.

Sorry to disappoint. :) France really has had fashy inclinations for a long time, if we’re being honest. A lot more people were plenty happy to have the Germans over in the 40s than pop media created afterward tended to willingly show. For some reason.

The food genuinely is great though.

There’s no such thing as a utopia but there are definitely some countries that have their shit more closely together than others. So don’t lose hope!

A ticket tracker and a wiki!

Else all the institutional knowledge about your software that your users are adding too vanishes forever into a black box. And that’d be a dang pity

Alas, the same forces are at play in France too, they’re just meeting a less favorable pre-existing terrain. But the billionaire-owned media have been carpet bombing the country with the message that holding the executive accountable is dictatorship, and Sarkozy is innocent and basically a saint, and this is all a conspiracy by the far-left judiciary, etc

And most people don’t know better because knowing better takes exhausting amounts of paying attention, and little by little, the messaging is working.